Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin/XFree86 DocBook-based FAQ draft

[Robert Collins]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold Hunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "cygx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 10:31 AM
Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin/XFree86 DocBook-based FAQ draft


> Robert,
>
> > And which I've got bad news about. docbook-tools are rpm only, and
the
> > cvs variant used rpm spec files to build. It also uses jade, not
> > openjade (and jade is no longer under development).
>
> I don't believe that is entirely correct, as I saw lots of tarballs
and
> such; however, it doesn't really matter, as Chris's comment that
Cygwin uses
> a makefile has me leaning in the direction of rolling our own
documentation
> makefiles.
>
> There is an example makefile for building DocBook SGML at:
>
> http://people.debian.org/~bortz//SGML-HOWTO/potato/x165.html
>
> With such a makefile we should be able to change to DocBook XML, which
would
> be nice, as you had noted.

Very good timing - I am just typing up the Makefile for using openjade
directly. :]

>
> Harold
>
>